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Pasctran is an ancient cult. [1] Some say they're extinct. Others say its practitioners have just gone underground, now that society will no longer tolerate s
by retrac 4y ago
Pasctran is an ancient cult. [1] Some say they're extinct. Others say its practitioners have just gone underground, now that society will no longer tolerate such things done in public. It's everywhere once you start looking though, insidiously contaminating our precious function bodies.
From the source to the original Bourne shell:
BEGIN
REG BOOL slash; slash=0;
WHILE !fngchar(*cs)
DO IF *cs++==0
THEN IF rflg ANDF slash THEN break; ELSE return(0) FI
ELIF *cs=='/'
THEN slash++;
FI
OD
END
[1] https://research.swtch.com/shmacro https://research.swtch.com/shmacro
- mikewarot 4y agoAs an old Pascal programmer who never really liked C.... even I have to say NO!!!! What a horrible thing to do. I've never liked macros, and things like this are part of the reason why.